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WFW 3.11 386 enhanced setting
Name: philowar Date: August 17, 2002 at 19:56:55 Pacific
Comment:
My system: Pentium 150, 48mb RAM, 2gig hd. What should I set the virtual memory and ram cache settings for in 386 Enhanced? Currently, I think I have a 4mb permanent swapfile, 32-bit file and disk access on, and a 12mb ram cache.
kick the swap file up to at least 50 MB. 4mb perm. swap is nearly useless.
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Response Number 2
Name: philowar Date: August 18, 2002 at 01:00:33 Pacific
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Even with 48mb RAM? I thought that I wouldn't even need a swapfile with that much ram and that using one could actually slow down the system?
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Response Number 3
Name: James Date: August 19, 2002 at 13:59:48 Pacific
Reply:
Philowar:
If you're running Windows for Workgroups, having 32-bit file access above 4MB is pretty much useless (there's virtually no extra gain on performance).
With that much ram, I usually shut the virtual memory right off; the only problem would be if you use a highly-graphic intensive design program, or run many applications simultaneously. As well, if you have Win32S installed, it will not run without a permanent swap file set up. I don't see anything wrong with a 4MB swap file; you have plenty of RAM.
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